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Rocking the Boat - Welsh Women who Championed Equality 1840-1990 (Hardcover)
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Rocking the Boat - Welsh Women who Championed Equality 1840-1990 (Hardcover)
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This insightful and revealing collection of essays focuses on seven
Welsh women who, in a range of imaginative ways, resisted the
status quo in Wales, England and beyond during the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. Written by an acclaimed biographical
historian, the essays not only challenge expectations about how
women's lives were lived in the last two centuries, they also
explore different ways of approaching biographical writing and
understanding, as well as raising issues of gender and nationality.
From the pioneer doctor and champion of progressive causes, Frances
Hoggan, to the irrepressible twentieth-century novelist Menna
Gallie, these women spoke out for what they believed in, and
sometimes they paid the price. Although proud of their Welsh
identity, they articulated it in a variety of ways, and each spent
most of their adult lives outside Wales. They became familiar, and
often controversial voices, on the page and platform in London,
Oxford, Northern Ireland and internationally. Lady Rhondda and
Edith Picton-Turbervill championed women's equality at the centre
of power in Westminster, whilst Myvanwy and Olwen Rhys saw
education as the key to change. Women's suffrage played a prominent
part in the lives of these women and was especially central to
Margaret Wynne Nevinson's thinking, writing and actions. The
intelligence, determination and grit of these women is revealed
through their stirring stories. Taken together, the essays
critically investigate the challenges, setbacks and hard-won
achievements of feisty women who rocked the boat over a period of
150 years.
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